Sliproad/Filter Lane conundrum
Discussion
Hi, looking for some feedback on something that happened last weekend. The link below shows a map of Great Western Road in Glasgow – there’s a sliproad at the bottom, two normal lanes going straight on, and a filter lane to turn right into the retail park.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=b%26q+glasgow&...
I came down the sliproad, got onto the first lane fine, but when I was moving into the second lane it was clear that there was a row of traffic in the filter lane slowing for a red light. The lights for the first two lanes were still green. I slowed to suss out the situation and, as I was indicating right, someone in the filter lane letting me in, so I slowed to nip behind the car in front. Halfway through this, I got beeped at and passed by a car on the left who obviously wasn’t happy that I wasn’t going straight on in the 2nd lane like he thought I should be. I’m pretty sure I hadn’t cut him up, as I had been in that lane for a good few seconds before he beeped and passed.
It was no biggie – don’t think it was dangerous as there was no evidence the guy slowed down at any point because of me – but just looking for another perspective in case it was me what done wrong. I can't say it's keeping me awake at night, but it certainly took the edge off my afternoon nap.
If you were me, what would you have done? Gone straight on or slowed to get into the filter lane?
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=b%26q+glasgow&...
I came down the sliproad, got onto the first lane fine, but when I was moving into the second lane it was clear that there was a row of traffic in the filter lane slowing for a red light. The lights for the first two lanes were still green. I slowed to suss out the situation and, as I was indicating right, someone in the filter lane letting me in, so I slowed to nip behind the car in front. Halfway through this, I got beeped at and passed by a car on the left who obviously wasn’t happy that I wasn’t going straight on in the 2nd lane like he thought I should be. I’m pretty sure I hadn’t cut him up, as I had been in that lane for a good few seconds before he beeped and passed.
It was no biggie – don’t think it was dangerous as there was no evidence the guy slowed down at any point because of me – but just looking for another perspective in case it was me what done wrong. I can't say it's keeping me awake at night, but it certainly took the edge off my afternoon nap.
If you were me, what would you have done? Gone straight on or slowed to get into the filter lane?
So essentially you were joining the road from the left and needed to move across to a lane on the right within a 100m or so but traffic was queuing in that lane?
Tricky one.. Looking at the map the safest thing would be to go straight on and use the roundabout to effectively u turn and head back.
In practice I think many might do what you did, it depends on the volume of traffic in the middle lanes going straight on. You can get a similar problem on ring roads where there's a main road and traffic merge in and out at regular intervals. I can think of examples around Birmingham, Coventry and Stoke.
Tricky one.. Looking at the map the safest thing would be to go straight on and use the roundabout to effectively u turn and head back.
In practice I think many might do what you did, it depends on the volume of traffic in the middle lanes going straight on. You can get a similar problem on ring roads where there's a main road and traffic merge in and out at regular intervals. I can think of examples around Birmingham, Coventry and Stoke.
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